How to Stay Away From Faux Pas in a Foreign Language?

2018-04-03 Thread markmst via Digitalmars-d-learn
Many language learners will have a similar story to narrate. They have often used a foreign word accidentally, which may sound similar in the English as well as in the target language and yet are completely different in their meanings, Such linguistic goof-ups are referred to as "false friends"

Second Language Acquisition - Dogme & Direct Method

2018-04-03 Thread markmst via Digitalmars-d-learn
The Dogme method, based on the writing of Scott Thornbury, “considers language learning to be a process where language emerges rather than one where it is acquired”. The entire method is based on conversation and the teaching (or in group lessons ‘moderation’) as such does not follow specific s

Hospitals Depending On Telephone Interpretation Services to Communicate With Patients Speaking Different Languages

2018-04-11 Thread markmst via Digitalmars-d-learn
A healthcare facility called River's Edge Hospital and Clinic in Minnesota is using a special video interpretation service that can connect an interpreter with a patient through a video conference to offer necessary interpretation services.If the patient feels that there is an inadequacy in the